Saturday, December 31, 2016

Don’t Feel Like You Can’t Have Another Go

New Year is themed with vision for
the achievement of hopes and dreams otherwise cast off as unachievable from
years past. A New Year, a new opportunity.

For myself, personally, I’ve failed
more goals than I’ve accomplished over the last several years. I’m always
setting goals, not just at New Year. It seems that there is a bigger picture to
these failures; something more important to learn.

I’ve learned not to cruel myself
for failing. Difficult things will occasionally prove too difficult or poorly
timed or inadequately resourced. The key is in the learning. But if we’re still
stuck in that land of disappointment, or we genuinely doubt we could pull it
off, then there’s no hope. One go and we’re done. We may be missing something
in giving up one effort too soon.

Two pieces of wisdom from Sir
Winston Churchill that I’ve always loved:

“Success consists of going from
failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.”

“Success is not final, failure is
not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

New Year is a natural time to
reflect.

It’s a time to go back to the drawing
board, and from our life’s context, design a blueprint of development. Such
plans are not pipedreams as much as they are a purpose to live our lives for.

So, don’t feel you can’t have
another go at it. Hoping in faith for a change we want to effect is 100 percent
better than having no belief at all.

Achieving a life improvement goal
is an unknowable journey with an unforeseen destination. Keep believing despite
failure.

Failure is merely an activator for
resilience. Resilient people persist beyond failure.

And by resilience we will achieve
many things we thought we could not. That’s a purpose to live for.